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phwaps back kevin boudreauPHWAP’S BACK is a heart-warming story about Kevin Boudreau a poker player who suffered from a stroke while on a break in a 2013 WSOP tournament. He was rushed to hospital as his brain was hemorrhaging from an arteriovenous malformation in his brain.

Boudreau had the support from his family and poker friends who include: Peter Jetten, Gabe Patgorski and Mario Silvestri III.

In less than eighteen months Boudreau returns to the live poker tournament circuit and final tabled the first two tournaments he entered, proving he still has the skills dispute having physical and communication challenges.

The Kevin Boudreau story reached film director Ian Tuason who had been following his progress and thought his amazing comeback story would make a heart-warming documentary. Tuason contact 888poker to fund the project and they approved the funding of: Phwap’s Back: A Poker Comeback Story.

888poker went one step further and sponsored Boudreau’s buy-in to the 2015 WSOP Main Event, just two years after his tragic event.

PHWAP’S BACK – Kevin Boudreau Story